Stats: South Africa vs Argentina

South Africa played Argentina in Johannesburg and won 63-9 though it took them over 30 minutes to open their account. The match was in honour of Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday.

Sanctionary Cards

There were not badly enough behaved players in a match of few stoppages.

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

Total number of penalties: 18

South Africa: 9
Argentina: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

South Africa:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Pietersen*, Du Plessis*, Matfield & Botha, Jantjes* 2, Matfield)
Scrum: 1 (Van der Linde)
Discipline: 2 (Botha – shoulder; Bekker – deliberate knock-on)

Argentina:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Pedro Ledesma, Álvarez Kairelis, Leguizamon, Roncero, Albacete)
Off-side: 1 (Albacete)
Discipline: 3 (Agulla – air tackle; Ayerza – air tackle; Albacete – air tackle)

Argentina missed a penalty kick at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 11/18 – 60%

Getting possession – line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs, turn-overs

In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.

South Africa:

Line-outs: 19 (2 quick) (Matfield won 10 of the line-outs – 9 in succession)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 1 collapse, 1 penalty, 2 uncontested)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

Argentina:

Line-outs: 8 (2 lost)
Scrums: 12 (1 wheel, five uncontested)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 65

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa: 9
Argentina: 0

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

South Africa: 9/0
Argentina: 0/3

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 9/3